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tomorrow on nhl.com to benefit the one fund. celtics wore special warm-up shirts for the playoff opener against the knicks. the celtics led this game after three quarters, but would only score eight points in the fourth quarter. they fell 85-78. game two is tuesday night. game three will be on friday in boston. guys? >> thanks so much, andy. we choose to focus on the red sox here. >> thank you very much. >> thanks for joining us. we have so much more ahead on cnn sunday morning which starts right now. good morning, everyone. i'm john berman live in boston. and i'm zoraida sambol. special coverage of the boston marathon bombings continues.
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>> let's get to latest on these bombings. perhaps the only person who knows the motive for the attack is sedated with a tube running down his throat. d dzhokhar tsarnaev is under heavy guard this morning in a boston hospital. the 19-year-old suspect will face federal terrorism charges and possibly murder charges in massachusetts. we have also learned more about the shootout early friday in watertown that led the other suspect, his older brother, dead. the police chief told cnn that officers found handguns, a rifle and at least six bombs including one made from a pressure cooker at the scene. he also said that during the gun battle, the surviving suspect drove a stolen car toward officers and ended up dragging his own brother down the street. investigators now also saying the evidence suggests the brothers acted alone. meanwhile, at least 57 bombing victims are still in the hospital. two of them in critical condition. >> in just about two hours, the
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university of massachusetts at dartmouth is set to reopen the campus where 19-year-old dzhokhar tsarnaev was a student. it was evacuated friday as authorities tried to track down the bombing suspect. he was found in watertown. but school officials confirm tsarnaev had been back on campus after the attack. chris lawrence is there this morning. what are students saying this morning? >> reporter: they are still in shock. we're now getting some new information about what happened between monday's bombing and friday's capture. we're learning basically while investigators were pouring over thousands of videos and photos trying to piece together what had happened, the man who was at the center of that video was right here on campus going to the gym to work out and sleeping many his dorm room. the helicopters came and left campus. s.w.a.t. teams and investigators
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hauled potential evidence from the dorm. but they couldn't answer students' biggest question. why did the teenager they knew as dzhokhar return to campus after the boston marathon bombing? >> are you surprised after what happened on monday he could come back to the dorms, go work out at the gym, maybe go to a party. >> i'm really surprised. why would you come back? come back for what? it's not possible to come back to living a normal life. >> reporter: that's exactly what dzhokhar tsarnaev did. he came back to college like nothing happened. >> he was in the hallway, just said hi and that's it. >> reporter: less than 48 hours after the bombing, harry was making small talk with him in dorm they share. >> did he seem upset, scared, nervous? >> he gave me a regular smile like usual. >> reporter: students have to swipe their i.d.s to get into buildings here. they confirm tsarnaev's i.d. was
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swiped at his dorm and the gym. >> i was shocked. i was just grateful he didn't place a bomb in our building, in our hallway. we live right next to the guy. >> reporter: jay is a friend of tsarnaev's who can't comprehend how normal things seemed between monday's bombing and friday's capture. >> kind of like jekyll and hyde. >> reporter: dzhokhar rarely talked about politics, but when he did, it was about his home country. >> we talked about life in chechnya and what's going on there. >> reporter: dzhokhar was an ethic chechen who came with his family from kyrgyzstan when he was very young. some of the students we talk to say he liked to play soccer. he liked to smoke weed. they say there was nothing about him that jumped out as anything other than what thousands of other college students around
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here do on a typical day. >> such a bold and bizarre move to go back to your university. chris lawrence, thank you. >> while students in the boston area, other schools return to normal. the teen bombing suspect is lying in a hospital bed this morning. the officials tell cnn he had been intubated and right now cannot talk. susan candiotti is standing outside the hospital. what do we know about his condition this morning? >> hi, john, good morning to you. because officials tell us he has these throat injuries and because of what you mentioned as well, that means he simply can't talk to investigators, even if they wanted to. or even if he wanted to. so now they have to sit and wait to see if his medical condition improves and if so, when that will be. this is a concern for vergs because they are trying to find out as much information as they
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can get about what he and his brother were up to, how long they had been planning it and this is how the governor weighs in on that. >> i think all of the law enforcement professionals are hoping for a host of reasons that the suspect survives because we have a million questions and those questions need to be answered. >> in the meantime, prosecutors are working on putting together their terrorism case against him. it's possible they might have charges ready today, but there's certainly no hurry to get him into court obviously because of his medical condition. john? >> susan, i want to talk a little more about the manhunt that was underway. we are seeing these thermal images taken just before the capture. what do they show us? >> that's right. we received those from the massachusetts state police. amazing pictures that we're
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receiving from them. it illustrates a technology that they had. when they got a tip there might be someone in the boat, the suspect sent up the hopper with thermal imaging equipment and it it showed that there was something in that boat because of the heat that was being generated. so that's the picture of form that you see colored in white and eventually in black where they can make out detail. after doing that, they were able to send in a robot with a long arm that was able to pick up the tarp on top of the boat. of course, that told the tale they knew for sure that that suspect was in there and that's when they sent in the s.w.a.t. team and tried to talk him out. there was an exchange of gunfire and the arrest was made. >> what a conclusion. susan candiotti outside the hospital now where the suspect dzhokhar tsarnaev intubated, sedated and officials waiting, hoping they can talk to him soon. susan, thanks very much.
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>> the suspect's uncle is speaking out. ruslan tsarni said they were brainwashed. take a listen. >> i caught one of the gentleman leaving in that area who is private to their family. i said, listen, do you know what is going on with that family? i heard that talking, where that might be coming from. he said, yes, there is such a thing. there's a person, some new convert to islam of arkansas mean yan dissent. i have no intention to say anything about arkansas mean yans. it's a neighboring region. i said this person took his bra brain. he brainwashed him completely.
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there's no obedience and respect to his own father. i'm telling him about my business. he's asking me questions. i was even happy for his height. his sense of humor, laughing, kids going by saying hi. that was 2006. >> tsarni went on to say he wants his surviving nephew to fully cooperate with police and to tell them everything that he knows. >> we want to update you now on
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a story we brought you yesterday. at that time ya na mcfadden, who won the boston marathon has been declared the winner of the london marathon for the wheelchair division. she set a new record on that course. one british publication reported her unofficial time as one hour and 46 seconds. that's fast. we'll have a live report from london later on this morning. >> i can't wait to hear from her. she thought it was going to be a very close race. >> she wins. >> good for her. deciding how to charge the 19-year-old suspect. he was not read his miranda rights. will he be charged under military or civil law? more ahead. 8% every 10 years. wow. wow. but you can help fight muscle loss with exercise and ensure muscle health. i've got revigor. what's revigor? it's the amino acid metabolite, hmb to help rebuild muscle and strength naturally lost over time. [ female announcer ] ensure muscle health has revigor
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♪ sweet caroline good times never seem so good ♪ ♪ so good so good so good >> so good, so good, so good. i defy you to get that song out of your head for the rest of your day. that's neil diamond showing some love for boston at the red sox came in fenway park yesterday. this in the wake of the marathon bombings. that was wicked awesome. >> special moment. we have learned this morning that the boston bombing suspect will be appointed a federal public defender once charges are filed. >> those charges could be filed soon. even though he remains in the hospital unable to talk this morning. we're joined this morning by cnn legal analyst and former new york prosecutor paul callahan. how does this affect the situation?
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if it he can't speak, is that likely to delay the process? >> it probably will delay the process, but the issue is not so much whether he can speak or not. he may have throat problems as of what went down. the real question is does he understand what's going on around him? the law says he has to be competent and that means e he has to understand the charges against him and assist in his defense. obviously, there are people who are born without the ability to speak and they can still be charged with crimes. so the real issue is what can he understand, what can he perce e perceive? that's a medical question. >> a justice department official say he will face federal terrorism charges and possibly also state murder charges. what other charges do you think we could expect? >> certainly the federal charges will be the most serious. there will be a number of murder charges. at least four murder charges and
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depending on what develops. we can expect hundreds of other assault charges. we'll expect a whole list of terrorism counts. the reason i say the federal charges are the most important is because you can seek the death penalty under federal murder and terrorism statutes. the state of massachusetts can also charge him with murder and with other counts. however, the death penalty was eliminated in massachusetts in 1984. so the chief threat to him comes from the federal government. but both jurisdictions can proceed separately with their own charges. >> we understand that federal public defenders will be representing tsarnaev. what is the first thing they are going to need to do? >> this, john, is a big thing because all weekend there's been a lot of talk about the fact that law enforcement authorities wanted to interrogate him without giving him his miranda
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warnings, without telling him he had a right to a lawyer. once you get a lawyer in the picture, and they are very capable, well-trained lawyers. they are in federal court all the time. that's certainly going to stop any interrogation, any further inquiry with respect to whether he had other individuals he was working with or how he got the bomb materials. so the moment a lawyer enters the proceedings, that's going to put a stop on interrogation efforts. and of course, the lawyer will appear with him at arraignment either in the hospital or by video conference or by appearance in federal or state court. >> what's the timing on this? does this have to happen soon? especially given the fact we understand that he is sedated right now. >> it really depends on his medical condition. the federal statutes are somewhat vague. they say after an individual has been arrested, he has to be brought before a magistrate within a reasonable and practical time period.
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so there's no hard date involved. however, when someone is se day-to-day, unconscious, unable to perceive what's going on, the law is very flexible in this area and immediate arraignment is not require. he's got to be conscious, he has to be aware and have a full understanding of what's going on around him before you'll see any court proceeding where he'll be asked to plead guilty or not guilty or will bail will be set. depending on his medical condition, we'll see this happen maybe monday or early next week if his condition improves to the point where he knows what's going on. >> paul, i'm curious about some reports, especially if i'm his family members, saying he was manipulated by his older brother. you see kid after kid coming forward saying that he was just an excellent person and that they would come forward and testify on his behalf. how will this dynamic affect
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this case? >> i think we're seeing the early formation of what will be a defense against the death penalty in the case. from what i see, it's going to be hard for him to avoid conviction probably on the bombing charges. although even there sometimes these cases when you go down the road, they are not as strong as you think they are. for instance, how do we know whether it was the older brother or this brother who actually put the bomb materials together or detonated the bomb. his defense may be i was just there, but i didn't do anything. he's certainly going to use the brainwashing approach to say i don't deserve the death penalty. i was just following my older brother and that's what we call a mitigating circumstance that could cause a jury to go for a lesser sentence. we also have to understand this is massachusetts. it's a jurisdiction that eliminated the death penalty in 1984. it's not like a lot of other states that have a strong death
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penalty culture. massachusetts is a place you don't often see the death penalty. the jurors in this case will be people from massachusetts, even though it's going to be tried in federal court. so i think you'll see this brainwashing defense shape up to be the primary approach defense attorneys will take. >> paul callan, thank you. the suspect's father says he's planning oncoming to united states to see his son. we're going to take you to russia to hear what the father is saying now. [ male announcer ] the 2013 chevy silverado 1500 has the best pickup coverage in america, with a new 2-year, 24,000-mile scheduled maintenance program, a 3-year, 36,000-mile bumper-to-bumper warranty,
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that was a clip from the bbc in london at the marathon
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pausing for a moment of silence to show their support for the victims of the boston bombings. >> they really stood in solidarity with everyone here. meanwhile we are learning more they once lived in russia. nick paton walsh traveled to dagestan and caught up with the suspect's father. he managed to dig up some new information about their past. >> reporter: it's hard to link boston's terror with a street so ordinary where the alleged bomber's father now lives in. the spotlight to the point he even drives past his own home and let neighbors echo his disbelief of what happened. >> translator: i didn't think his kids could have done that. it's not true. >> translator: this means he's a terrorist. that's what it's like now. i don't believe any of this. >> reporter: he did stop outside
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his home briefly, though. >> we don't really have a chance to properly hear what you have to say about the terrible circumstances you're in. >> my kids never did anything -- that's it. >> sir, your sons didn't do this? >> never, ever. >> are you going to america? >> yes, i will go. >> when will you leave? you will forgive me, sir. i know it's a difficult time for you. i'm just trying to do my job here. i understand. when was the last time you spoke to them? >> sunday morning. that's it. >> have you been in touch with the special services here? what do they have to say to you? okay, i understand, i understand. >> reporter: officially he denies the tsarnaevs schooled
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here long enough to be considered locals. the. >> these records show the four tsarnaev family members coming in 2001 from kyrgyzstan and then leaving it says here to america the 25th of march 2002. s. >> they were with us for five months, he says. their formative years were in america. it's their culture. hast that's where they socially matured. >> reporter: tamerlan didn't arrive in america until 2006. that leaves the possibility he spent five formative years in southern russia. in a troubled, poor region peppered with radicals, perhaps lies some of the holes in tamerlan's story that urgently must be filled if boston will ever know why.
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nick paton walsh, cnn. >> our thanks to nick paton walsh for that really interesting report. >> a half a million people are attending the london marathon today and security is extremely tight. plus a member of the royal family shows up to cheer on the crowds. we'll tell you who showed up right after this. when you have diabetes...
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